Vice President Mike Pence, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine walk to Bridenstine’s office at NASA Headquarters on Monday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Bloomberg: Trump’s Space Force Will Guard the U.S. From Above, NASA Chief Says
NASA’s administrator is a strong defender of President Donald Trump’s proposals for space -- including an armed force and a permanent presence on the moon -- and says he wants Americans to realize how much their well-being depends on what happens far above Earth.
“Every banking transaction requires a GPS signal for timing,” Jim Bridenstine said in an interview. “You lose the GPS signal and guess what you lose? You lose banking.”
“If you look at what space is, it’s not that much different than the ocean,” added Bridenstine, who made 333 aircraft-carrier landings as a Navy pilot. “It’s an international domain that has commerce that needs to be protected.”
Bridenstine was in his third term representing a congressional district in Oklahoma when Trump nominated him to lead the $21 billion space agency. He was confirmed in the spring despite criticism over his lack of scientific or engineering experience and his previous statements questioning climate change science -- though he said in hearings that human activity was the chief cause of global warming.
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WNU Editor: The militarization of space continues.
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Likely NOT to include “Muslim outreach”.
They can have Uranus
Hahaha- is there mud and goats there?
"The militarization of space continues " Very true. Russia and China have been at this for awhile. They are way ahead of us in this area.
I'm pleased that we have leaders in POTUS and his team who recognize the problem and are trying to address it. Are the proposals to address the problem sound? I'm not sure. The first step is to recognize the problem. Then we work on how to address it.
Yep,corn and peanuts to!
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